BASA's Industry Lunch will be held at Jaguar Landrover Castle Bromwich on 28th March 2019. We will be having an Open Industry Forum and the AGM immediately before Industry Lunch and all members booking for the Industry Lunch will be invited to take the factory tour after lunch. Members are now able to book their tickets on the Mint Events managed website.
If the UK leaves the EU on 29 March without a deal, UK businesses that manufacture or import chemicals from the EU will have to register those chemicals to a new UK regulatory system, UK REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) using its associated UK REACH IT system.
FEICA is proud to be part of the European Agency for Safety and Health at work (EU-OSHA) Healthy Workplaces Campaign. This partnership demonstrates FEICA’s commitment to the responsible management of chemicals and continuous improvement in Health & Safety
The CES statement on the new potential restriction has been added to the Sealants working group panel on the BASA Members only website.
BASA Members should visit the members area of the website to register for the Defra commissioned study to assess the impacts of the UK’s exit from the European Union (‘Brexit’) on the operation of a broad range of businesses in the chemicals value chain
Today we have added the Aerospace option to the markets available for our adhesives and sealant members. Formerly covered under the general transportation category, by request we have now added Aerospace as a stand alone market. Any members currently supplying to this market should edit their directory information online via their members login on the website.
The UK Government has issued guidance to businesses that use chemicals on the actions they should take now to minimise any disruption in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Workshop to develop chemicals supply chain opportunities in construction/infrastructure sector - 13 Feb (London) This workshop is building on some initial interaction with the infrastructure sector in 2018 which suggested lots of untapped potential for collaborative innovation. Some of the early innovation challenges/ opportunities identified include: Bi-metallic corrosion; identifying material fatigue; green concrete; Spray coating of concrete; identifying material fatigue; stabilisation of soil; reducing Nox emissions inside tunnels; and circular economy including valorisation of plastic waste. This is a unique, valuable opportunity to better understand the innovation challenges of your customers-customers in the infrastructure & construction sector. KTN have 50 tickets for this event with half of these tickets being allocated to the chemical sector. So places are limited.
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Members are encouraged to send in news articles for inclusion in the BASA Bulletin to be published for the BASA Open Forum, AGM and Industry Lunch on 29th March at Jaguar Landrover, Castle Bromwich.